Manifolding sales book



Oct. 8, 1929. E. K. BOfTLE 1,730,352

MANIFOLDING SALES BOOK Filed May 23. 1922 INV TOR 6mm. 41-660 ATTORNEY Patented o... s, 1929 UNITED STATES PATENT OFF-ICE EDWARD KIBBY BOTTLE, OF ELMIRA, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO AMERICAN SALES BOOK COMPANY, LIMITED, OF TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA, A CORPORATION OF ONTARIO, CANADA Application filed May 23,

This invention relates to manifolding devices and with respect to its more specific features to manifolding books, pads and the like.

One of the objects of the invention is the provision of a simple and practical manifolding unit adapted to be utilized in various types of manifolding books and the like.

Another object of the invention is the provision of a practical manifolding device 'wherewith manifolding books of simple con-- struction, pads and the like may be readily made for the production of four or more copies at one writing.

Another ob'ect of the invention is the provision of an efficient and practical construction of manifolding books, pads and the like for making four, five or six copies at one writing.

In the accompanying drawing. forming.

part of this specification and wherein similar reference characters refer to similar parts throughout the several views,

Figure 1 illustrates, in perpec ti ve, an

embodiment of the invention designed for the production of six copies at one writing;

Fig. 2 is a side view of a device similar to Fig. 1, except that a supplemental pasted leaf is omitted, this modification being adapted to make five copies at one writing;

Fig. 3 illustrates in side view a further modification of the invention capable of the production of five copies at one writing,

Fig. 4 is a side view illustrating an embodiment of the invention capable of the production of four copies at one writing; and

Figs. 5 and 6 are diagrammatic illustrations of details.

Referring now more specifically to th drawings and particularly to Fig. 1 thereof, the numeral 1 indicates a pad of record leaves. These leaves should be made of pa- MANIFOLDING SALES BOOK 1922. Serial No. 562,954.

per .of such character that when leaves thereof are superposed one upon another with the interposition of transfer material, a writing made upon an upper leaf will be transferred to the underlying leaves. In the embodiment.

The pad 1 is composed of a plurality of" Y superposed record sheets bound together at one end by the staples 2. .As all of these sheets are alike the description of one will suffice. One of these sheets is shown in partly open condition in Fig. 1 and is composed of the four leaves 3, 4, 5 and 6, the leaves 3,

5 and 6 being of substantially the same length and width, the leaf 4 having an extended or stub portion 7 for binding-purposes, and be ing weakened along the line 8 in order that it may be readily torn from the stub portion.

Each of the record sheets is formed from a strip which is first folded along theline 9, that is, between the fold 9 and the end constituting the free ends of the original sheet as indicated in Fig. 5 to provide a folded record sheet of two plies. Thereupon this folded sheet is again foldedintermediate its ends on lines parallel with the line 9 as generally indicated at 10, 10, Fig. 6, so as to provide the four relatively superposed record leaves 3, 4, 5 and 6 above'referred to. It will be understood that the folding lines 10, 10 are substantially coincident in the actual folded sheet, and that the fold lines are sharp instead of curved as in the diagrammatic illustrations. To-the underface of the original leaf 3 is pasted a supplemental, preferably transparent, record leaf 11 the pasted area being indicated by the shading at 12, this area being at one side of and close to the folding line 9. c The supplemental leaf 11 lies in superposed relation to the original leaf 3 and when the book is set for operation as illustrated in Fig. 1, thissupplemental leaf is 4 1n superposed relation to the four leaves 3,

4., 5'and 6.

The numeral 13' indicates a backing which may be of pasteboard or ther relatively stifi substantial material, and the bound end of the pad 1 is held to the backing 13 by prolonging the staples -2 for the purpose. The numeral 14 indicates a support leaf, also of stiff material as pasteboard or metal, the sup ort leaf 14'being hinged or otherwise flex- 1bly connected to the backing 13 on an axial line 30 parallel to and remote from the bound end'of the pad 1. Thus it will be per ceived that the pad 1 lies smoothly on the relatively stiff backing 13 and may rotate therewith on the support leaf 14.

The numerals 15 indicate theleaves of a supplemental pad held to the support leaf 14 along a line parallel to the bound end of the pad 1. The record leaves 15 of the supplemental pad are preferably transparent and may be composed of tissue paper and the supplemental pad may be held to the support leaf 14 by staples 1 6. The support leaf 14 projects or extends beyond the end of the backing 13 adjacent the bound end of the pad 1, as illustrated so that the leaves 15 may be disposed in operative manifolding relation to those of the pad 1. In Fig. 1, one of the leaves 15 of the supplemental pad is shown in operative position. The number of leaves 15 are usually the same as the number of record sheets in the pad 1.

In the present embodiment the transfer material, which is adapted to transfer inscription from one to another of the superposedrecord leaves, includes the transfer-leaves 17 and 18. These .leavesmay be bound with the record sheets of the pad 1 and they work from the bound end of the pad into superposed relation with each other and with the record leaves of the uppermost set of four record leaves comprised in each record sheet of the pad 1. One of the transfer leaves, in the present embodiment the lower transfer leaf 17, is of suflicient length to extend across the fold line 10, this fold line being consequent from folding the folded sheet illustrated in Fig. 5 to the form illustrated in Fig. 6. In this wise it will be noted that the transfer leaf 17 is adapted to lie on the record leaf 4 and beneath the record leaf 3, the .transfer leaf 17 being folded on the line 19 which is parallel to the fold line 10. The other, the upper transfer leaf 18, is'of a length to lie between the folds consequent from folding the sheet illustrated in Fig. 5 into the condition illustrated in Fig. 6, that is, in consequence of the intermediate folding of the uppermost record sheet of'the pad 1.

It will be understood that in Fig. 1 the rec ord sheets and the transfer leaves are illustrat'ed in open position, the arrangement being diagrammatic for the purpose of clearly disclosing the relative positions of the parts. In operative condition the leaves will,

of course, be flattened out so as to provide.

a proper disposition of the leaves for the manifolding operation.

In Fig. 2 the arrangement is the same as in Fig. 1 except that the supplemental leaf 11 is omitted. Five copies at one writing may be made by the arrangement illustrated in Fig. 2, and it will be noted that the arrangement of the record leaves 3, 4, 5 and 6 and of the .transfer leaves 17 and 18 is the same as in Fig. 1.

In Fig. 3 the supplemental pad of leaves 15 is omitted, but the supplemental interleaf 11 is retained. Inasmuch as the leaves15 are omitted, the support leaf 14 is also absent.

The backing 13 may or may not be retained.

In this form five co ies'may be made at one writing and it will enoted that the leaves 3, 4, 5 and 6 and the transfer leaves 17 and 18 are retained as in the other forms.

In, Fig. 4 the construction'is the same as,

illustrated the transfer leaves 17 and 18 are made double-face throughout, i-. e., each face of each of these transfer leaves is provided with transfer material, although .in some forms the coating of each face of each leaf throughout is not required, as will be understood.

In the provision for making six copies at one writing illustrated in Fig. 1 a portion of the transfer leaf 17 lies between the record leaf 5 and the supplemental leaf 11, and such port-ion is double-face in order to transfer impressions direct to the upper face of record leaf 5 and reverse to the 'underface of supplemental leaf 11. The record on leaf 11 may be read through this leaf, which is transparent. In the same figure (Fig. 1), the transfer leaf 18 is double-face, in order to transfer direct to the record leaf 6 and reverse to the transparent supplemental leaf 15.

When the supplemental leaf 15 is omitted,

per face of the transfer leaf 18 may be uncoated with transfer material.

Similarly, when the supplemental leaf 11 is omitted, that face of the transfer leaf 17 which would otherwise lie thereagainst need not be coated.

In setting the book of Fig. 1 for operation, the leaves 15 on which record is to be made are thrown back. Ordinarily the transfer leaves 17 and 18 will then be found lying upon the uppermost set of leaves of the pad 1. Thereupon the uppermost set is unfolded and the transfer sheet 17 set to lie upon the unfolded leaves 4 and 3, and will lie directly against the tissue supplemental leaf 11.

Thereupon the leaves 6 and 5 are folded to lie on top of the transfer leaf 17. Then the transfer leaf 18 is permitted to fall upon the upper face of the leaf 6. One of the leaves 15 isthen placed upon the upper face of the transfer leaf 18 and then the leaves 3 and 5 are permitted to fall upon the tissue leaf 15. Inscription may now be made upon the original leaf 3 and this inscription will be transferred direct to the leaves 4, 5 and 6 and reversely to the under faces of the supplemental leaves 11 and 15. Having made the inscription the pad 1 may be rotated on the hinge 30 so as to rise and cause the inscribed leaf 15 to be withdrawn from recording position and to fall on the support leaf 14 and lie beneath the backing 13, when the latter is returned to position. The inscribed leaves 15 are thus retained together in the book, and may be stored away, when all the leaves have been used. Thereupon the inscribed record sheet of the pad 1 is unfolded and'torn from the stub along the line 8. The operator will 'then have in hand five copies, four of which are integrally connected, but which may be readily torn apart along the fold lines on account of the weakened character of such lines, as by indentations or perforations. Atthis time the supplemental leaf 11 is still attached to leaf 3. In consequence, when the several leaves are distributed to the various departments of the organization, as store, in which the book is utilized the supplemental leaf will safely follow the leaf to which it'is pasted and may be torn therefrom thereafter as needed. It will be perceived that six records are made at one writing by the construction illustrated in Fig. 1.

Should only five records be required, the forms illustrated in Figs. 2 and 3 may be used. Their operation will be understood from the foregoing description of the operation of the form of Fig. 1. In Fig. 3, however, all the inscribed leaves are removed, there being no inscribed leaf retained in the book.

IVhen only four records are required, the form illustrated in 4 is preferred, because all the leaves may be of substantial paper, and the records direct on each, instead of reverse.

Thus by the aboye described'construction are accomplished among others the objects hereinbefore referred to.

As many changes could be made in the above construction and many apparently widely different embodiments of this invention could be made without departing from the scope thereof, it is intended that all matter contained in the above description or shown in the accompanying drawings shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limitmg sense.

It is also to be understood that the language used in the following claim is intended to cover all of the generic and specific features of the invention herein described, and all statements of the scope of the invention which, as a matter of language, might be said to fall therebetween.

Having described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is A support member, a manifolding pad comprising, in combination, a plurality of sets of leaves, each set comprising four leaves attached together end to end to form a strip, said strip being folded to superpose the third and fourth leaves upon the second and first respectively, and being folded a second time to bring all four leaves of the set in registry with each other, the first leaf of each set being extended beyond the others to form an extension by which the sets are bound together in the pad, said pad being pivoted to said support at the end opposite said binding, and a carbon strip bound within the pad above the record leaves and of a length equal to two of said record leaves, whereby it may be folded to extend between the record leaves, an auxiliary pad attached to said support at the opposite end thereof from said first mentioned pad in position tohave its leaves interleaved with those of the first mentioned pad, and an auxiliary carbon sheet bound within said first mentioned pad in position to be interleaved with the leaves thereof.

In testimony whereof I afl ix my signature.

EDWARD KIRBY BOTTLE. 

